On this day around 9 a.m., the special counsel investigating insurrection said it sent prosecutors and investigators to the Bank of Korea's Currency Issue Department to execute a search and verification warrant. This is the first time the special counsel has moved to execute a warrant since declaring the start of its investigation on the 6th.
The search is intended to check all information related to the manufacture, sorting, storage, and distribution of the Bank of Korea's banded bundles of notes. The special counsel said it is focusing on understanding the management system for the bands and stickers used on the bundles and that the seizure process to secure items was not included.
Earlier, the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office secured banded bundles worth 50 million won during a search of the home of Geonjin, Jeon Seong-bae, in Dec. last year but lost the bands and stickers bearing inspection information. The Southern District Prosecutors' Office maintained that it was a simple clerical error by an employee, but, having failed to determine the source of the banded bundles, transferred the case to the special counsel investigating insurrection.
The special counsel plans to reconstruct the source information for the lost bands through internal Bank of Korea data and to trace the actual leak route of the banded bundles.